NAME

       uuidtrip - generate universally unique identifiers (RFC 4122)

SYNOPSIS

       uuidtrip [options...]

DESCRIPTION

       uuidtrip  generates  and  prints  universally unique identifiers version 3, 5 (name based with MD5, SHA-1
       hashing) and 4 (random based) according to RFC 4122.  uuidtrip provides  command  line  access  for  most
       functions of the UUIDM library.

OPTIONS

       -r     Generate a random based UUID version 4. This is the default.

       -ns uuid
              set  the  name  space for version 3 and version 5 name based UUID's (options -md5 and -sha1).  The
              default is the DNS namespace.

       -name name
              set the name for version 3 and version 5 name based UUID's (options -md5 and -sha1).  The  default
              is www.example.org.

       -md5   Generate an MD5 name based UUID version 3.

       -sha1  Generate an SHA-1 name based UUID version 5.

       -u     Output the generated UUID as string with uppercase letters (default is lowercase letters).

       -b     Output the generated UUID as raw bytes (binary).

       -help  Print the list of options and exit

       --help Alias for -help

SEE ALSO

       RFC 4122

       API documentation at /usr/share/doc/libuuidm-ocaml-dev/html/

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Hendrik Tews <hendrik@askra.de>, specifically for the Debian project (and
       may be used by others).

                                                  May  17, 2013                                      uuidtrip(1)